Let’s make a knife

[00:02:15]Come on.

[00:02:36]Come on. Let's go.

[00:02:46]Hey, what's up, guys?

[00:02:52]I told you guys I was going to be back today. Throw her back.

[00:02:59]Try to make a knife or two.

[00:03:03]See how she goes.

[00:03:08]How you guys doing today? Lovely Sunday.

[00:03:43]I start off. I got a thin piece of uh 80 CRV2 lazy Sunday. Yeah, I'm super lazy. I feel like doing nothing, but we're going to get this. Sometimes I got to just push myself to to do something.

[00:04:09]Start off. I already cut this so it's uh a lot easier to work.

[00:04:19]That's not going to work.

[00:04:22]That's not going to work at all.

[00:04:32]Make this a real thin one.

[00:04:40]I didn't thin it out too much, but we'll see.

[00:05:12]I can even hold it with this.

[00:05:38]Hey guys, remark how small this piece is right here. See it? Make sure you remark. Remember how small this is?

[00:05:51]>> Just for future reference.

[00:06:05]We are not used to wearing these uh safety glasses. They really mess me up with my view. But we'll see. I don't get no slag in my eyes. So, try to work with the glasses.

[00:06:41]This is a thin piece of steel already. I think it's maybe 8 inch.

[00:06:46]We're going to see how how much we can kind of stretch it out. Make like a little little chef knife out of it.

[00:07:25]Yeah, you should.

[00:07:28]I would appreciate something like that.

[00:07:44]These used to be nippers for a horse's foot. I just squashed them out.

[00:08:29]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:09:00]They say it's slow and steady win the race.

[00:09:27]Still pretty thick, but you're going to see we're going to stretch it out. I'm going to work this end a little bit now.

[00:10:00]That's too heavy. That one too heavy for what I'm trying to do.

[00:10:24]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:10:44]Looks like a glorified butter knife.

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[00:11:21]I try to try to do lies once in a while.

[00:11:24]usually do it pretty often, but in the summer I do uh lots of regular work where I don't have as much time, but in the winter we do a lot of lives. Try to keep you guys entertained for the most part.

[00:11:38]Keeps me in shape.

[00:12:21]What happens when you go too thin? Right off the hooch.

[00:12:32]It's kind of a thin piece of metal to be trying to stretch out a lot here, but we're going to see what we can do with that one.

[00:13:15]This hammer moves the metal, but sure does take the wind out of your sail.

[00:13:43]Come on. Lose half my heat before I even get hold of it.

[00:13:55]Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[00:14:27]going to a smaller hammer. That one done kick me up.

[00:14:36]Just subscribe. Thank you, John. I appreciate that. John the Baptist Canada. Hey, I'm a Canadian, too. John, can you tell?

[00:14:48]Appreciate that, John. Thank you. Hey, what's up, Woody Monkey?

[00:14:56]Awesome.

[00:14:58]Take these off. I can't see nothing.

[00:15:03]This heat is hard to keep this thing regulated.

[00:15:12]I thought this piece of metal would have stretched out more, that thin one, but I guess it's only an eighth of an inch, so we can't stretch it out too much.

[00:16:09]Going to make this one nice and thin.

[00:16:11]We're going to try anyway. I wish it would have been wider. I should have cut the piece a little thicker, but oh well.

[00:16:21]As they say, that's how she goes.

[00:17:03]That's the tang. This is going to be the blade. Going to make probably like a little carving knife out of it. Still quite a bit of meat there we can work with.

[00:17:22]Good morning.

[00:18:01]Guess we'll have to do most of the uh the shaping probably be with the grinder, I think, just cuz I'm getting it too thin That's getting pretty thin. That's going to be nice. Making a little I guess not going to be a chef knife. It's going to be just like a little kitchen, I suppose.

[00:18:35]Holy moly, that's hot.

[00:19:04]That's why we should have safety glasses on.

[00:19:07]One bad slip a bit warm today. Let me check. Sorry guys, haven't been following your chat.

[00:19:21]Sorry.

[00:19:23]Uh yeah. Hey, Don. How's it going? Pretty hot.

[00:19:34]Another knife. Who's that for? I don't know.

[00:19:39]Monkeys in the house.

[00:19:43]Just trying to keep keep a little bit busy today.

[00:19:47]Took a trip with the wife. We went and watch all the the ships uh cargo ships. My stepson is going to be the captain now. And he takes cargo ships all over the north.

[00:20:00]He's been he's been in European uh international seaways, but right now he's trying to focus on Canada. So, we just went aboard and we checked out his ship and uh and we watched him leave the locks heading towards Montreal heading towards the ocean. Pretty neat to see.

[00:20:35]Oh my goodness. These used to be good to hold, but now I can't hold crap with them. Look at I lost my whole heat just like that.

[00:20:52]Oh, yeah.

[00:20:54]That's what I'm going to do.

[00:21:16]We're going to make the blade flat down here.

[00:21:23]I was making it this way, but then when I just seen it like that, I was like, "Yep, that's what the knife that's what the steel is telling me to do."

[00:21:34]Tongs is hot.

[00:22:33]Oh yeah.

[00:22:49]You want to make some noise? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:22:52]It was a cool trip. We had good fun.

[00:22:55]Good getaway with the with the misses.

[00:23:21]I have to figure it out. monkey.

[00:23:24]Uh, so we've been busy. Uh, who me? I ain't got no teacher.

[00:23:54]had a teacher told me to make told me make them better songs.

[00:24:45]Everything looks like a butter knife today. Looks like butter knife day.

[00:25:26]be hey back.

[00:27:26]I'm just going to drop that a little bit more so it gets more on the point. We're looking for this. I'm going to stretch this out a little bit.

[00:27:36]Okay.

[00:28:18]How would you heat?

[00:28:47]Jack of all trades, master or not.

[00:28:55]>> Yeah, I didn't even cover up my Tundra yet. My lights on here.

[00:29:02]Drain my battery. How do I do that now?

[00:29:11]Got the light on. I don't even know how to turn off.

[00:30:26]I'm going to cut that one off about like that.

[00:32:02]Get the old hot cutter out.

[00:32:28]Just put her in the leg vise here and we'll just break her out.

[00:32:41]Oh, losing my heat. There we go.

[00:33:09]We cut that.

[00:34:25]Get another little heat. Pretty thick, but that's okay. It don't matter. Just straighten it out probably. And I think that's going to be almost good.

[00:34:33]Work on this handle a little bit.

[00:34:38]That piece that I cut, I want to get it off here.

[00:34:52]There we go.

[00:34:55]Had one little piece I had notched and uh want to get it off.

[00:35:08]We're going to get the heat. We'll do a little handle on there. Maybe thin the blade out a little bit more.

[00:35:18]Freaking hot. Oh man, I can't keep up with that.

[00:35:25]Oh, those plants are going crazy.

[00:35:29]I'm starting to see the tomatoes are starting to come.

[00:35:34]Hey, arm.

[00:35:36]Yeah, I need that. I need this good arm workout.

[00:35:53]>> Yeah, I know.

[00:35:56]Some of you guys use those little we tiny blades there.

[00:36:29]This we're going to finish with the grinder, but to get something Halfway decent.

[00:36:54]Because I forg thin, I can't really do much with the the actual curvage. The grinder will fix that in like two seconds.

[00:37:09]That is hot.

[00:37:13]I thought actually don't want to make it too thin because I want to have a good uh good scandy grind on this one.

[00:37:42]For a carving knife, you need a good scandy grind.

[00:37:47]I've been doing flat grinds and they're not as good.

[00:37:50]Good thick scandy is what works.

[00:38:14]That looks not bad.

[00:38:18]Decent. I think we'll come in after the grinder. But our bevels, I I could forge them in, but they're going to be like pretty long and shallow. I want steep. I want to instead of a long flat, I want a steep grind. So, actually, not bad.

[00:38:53]Not bad. Not bad.

[00:39:12]I'm going to leave it just like that.

[00:39:18]I can hold on to it.

[00:39:21]Oh, I'm going to heat treat this knife while I got this forge going.

[00:39:27]This one here is all ready to go. So, let's heat treat it.

[00:39:33]We're going to heat treat this one. It's all ready to go. It's already been ground.

[00:39:44]Raspberries. We don't even have raspberries yet.

[00:39:54]A flat grind is basically just like a a high flat grind all the way up to here.

[00:40:00]You can come all the way up to the top.

[00:40:02]Whereas a scandy grind is more like more like a wedge like this. But instead of instead of being way up here, the grind would be like here. So it's a real instead of like the flat grind is more like this and the scandi is more like this. And then you could do like a convex where it has like a sort of a round grind and you could have a secondary bevel.

[00:40:27]Lots of different grinds you can do.

[00:40:54]It's a pretty ugly looking knife right now, but hopefully hopefully it'll look better when it's done. It looks pretty ugly right now.

[00:41:03]I'm not going to lie.

[00:41:07]At least it'll be thin. It should be a real good tomato topper. A good uh Badly twisted.

[00:41:53]That should be nice and flat. I'm going to straighten her out with that.

[00:42:05]So, this we're going to heat up a piece of steel. We're going to heat up our oil.

[00:42:10]We're going to uh because this knife is forged, we got to normalize it a couple of times because when you start forging in it, like I'm not a scientist, but they say all the molecules go blah blah blah. So, you got to heat treat it, you know, heat it up, let it cool down, heat it up so it all goes back to normal. Like before you you you started forging it. Like when you get a raw piece of steel like this, it's already all innealed. Like it's soft. You can grind it, you can cut it, you can do whatever you want. But once you start forging it, it starts to shake everything all around.

[00:42:54]See, like that's a perfect quench color right there. Look, nonmagnetic right there. It catches here a little bit because I'm letting it cool down. But that's like your perfect color right there for this kind of steel. Perfect.

[00:43:06]We just put it on our brick here and let it cool down.

[00:43:10]We'll do that a couple times. Let it normalize and we'll give it a good hot soak and then we'll quench it. But we're going to heat up our oil. So you don't want to quench it in cold oil. Never quench it in cold oil.

[00:43:24]Oh, that's hot.

[00:43:27]Thank you.

[00:43:45]I can assure you this is not going to be a butter knife.

[00:43:50]Just once it's all nice and straight, you'll see it should be beautiful.

[00:44:06]That's almost like your knife. You wanted one of their old bowls, a traditional, you can put a bend in it right there.

[00:44:13]Make it look worn out and used trade style knife.

[00:44:59]Right now, I'm not forging it. I'm just trying to straighten it out.

[00:45:13]You never want to pound on cold steel because that's when you make uh you crack the steel. Oh, that's looking look good there.

[00:45:28]Blade looks pretty good.

[00:45:37]I see the blade is probably good right there.

[00:45:42]Oh, yeah. That's nice and straight. The handle's not bad either.

[00:45:47]Think we're going to send that one F4 print.

[00:45:54]We'll come in with the grinder and we'll fix that up. Make it look real pretty.

[00:45:58]Right now it looks like crap. Looks like an oversized butter knife, but guarantee you that's not the end of it.

[00:46:05]Trust me. Do this. Heat this up another time or two. Heat up our oil now.

[00:46:12]Got our oil down here.

[00:46:15]You can see the smoke roll out.

[00:46:49]Sorry guys, I'm not keeping up on the chat. Um, so full information, huh? I try Opal.

[00:47:05]I'm not the best. You guys already know that. There's lots of people better than me, but I just do my best. That's all I can do. I do what the skills the Lord gave me and that's it. That's all I can do. Like everybody else, you try your hardest and that's that's all you can do.

[00:47:33]Like that. I guarantee that's a perfect color. Okay. Non-magnetic. Perfect. Here you'll see it sticks here. Nothing. So, we let that see that one more normalization and then we're going to quench. Got the oil all heated up because this one's so thin. We're not even going to We don't have to normalize it in the uh ashes or in the Well, actually, we might put it in the We'll put it in the oven there, the forge when we're completely done.

[00:48:06]Just to let it normalize nice and slow.

[00:48:08]It's the same thing. Letting it normalize in there with the heat. Nice and slow. Doesn't make it it makes it so it doesn't harden too fast and it kneels it back to its kneel state. So you can actually work on it. If you you started working on that when it's like hot, it's hard as a rock. It's almost like when you when you quench it, it's almost like pretty hard. So this there's still lots of color in there. Watch. Turn that light off.

[00:48:33]Still see all the color in here compared to the stove. Look. So you let all that color get out. Normalize nice and slow. And then we're going to quench it. Hard quench into the fire.

[00:48:49]And then it's just got to be heat treated.

[00:48:55]What are you guys doing on this wonderful Sunday?

[00:49:03]This is the third one, right? No heat.

[00:49:06]See, there's no color in there anymore.

[00:49:08]Now, we'll just put it back in. This time, we'll soak the whole blade if we can.

[00:49:14]We don't have to crank it up high. We'll just let it soak in there. Get a good heat. This one. Actually, we'll put this one in here, too. Right now, when we're done, we're just going to block the front off. That'll be it for that.

[00:49:27]Don't need this anymore. We need for the We're going to block the front.

[00:49:40]Guess we're going to probably do a giveaway pretty soon. Eh, I think my plane will ever fly again.

[00:49:55]I'd say it's I'd say she's done. This is what happens when you forge with the plane above.

[00:50:02]Look at it. All melted and sagged right out. Look at that. That's a styrofoam plane. There's so much heat in here.

[00:50:09]It's just insane.

[00:50:13]Guys, want to see the quench here? I guess you can see the quench.

[00:50:18]Actually, here. We'll get really close.

[00:50:21]You guys can see exactly what's going on.

[00:50:25]We're going to quench it right in there.

[00:50:28]Just about there. I can see that steel there looking real good. Check it.

[00:50:34]Oh yeah, that's non magnetic right there. Go a little bit hotter. Oh, that is a beautiful color, guys. Look at this color here. That is beautiful. Heat it up a little bit more.

[00:50:48]Beautiful. Beautiful color. You guys ready?

[00:50:52]Pay attention. Pay attention, guys. Here we go. Ready. Three, two, one, and we go.

[00:51:09]The tang is still a bit red. We'll let that cool off a little bit more. We don't want the tang too hard.

[00:51:17]Still got a bit of color in there.

[00:51:26]That's it.

[00:51:46]Going to block off our forge. Let that other piece of uh steel enneal in there nice and slow.

[00:51:58]We got a blade in here somewhere. Can find it somewhere.

[00:52:16]It's in there. I seen it go in.

[00:52:19]Where is it though?

[00:52:30]Got other stuff in there, too. What is that?

[00:52:42]Okay, we got to figure out how we get that out of there. Maybe that wasn't the best move on my part.

[00:52:48]It's in there. I just got to find it.

[00:52:50]It's cuz there's another piece of steel in here, too. I don't know where it is.

[00:53:01]Oh, come on. This is ridiculous.

[00:53:14]There we go. That's what we're looking for.

[00:53:26]I think that was a old piece of steel I was testing. Okay, hold on, guys. Let's get this back up here.

[00:53:34]We'll get our uh get our rag. Give her the old test. See what it's like. See if she's hard or not.

[00:53:48]Hopefully back on.

[00:54:18]Where's my file?

[00:54:28]Okay, we got to go somewhere else. Got to find a file. Got to find that file.

[00:54:35]Oh, I was doing some work on the other handle, too. The other knife. I don't know if you guys were around to see it.

[00:54:40]This skates like glass. See that?

[00:54:56]All right, monkey. Take care. See how it Listen to that. It's skating like glass.

[00:55:01]And you can see this part here. You can almost see the quench line, right? You see that?

[00:55:09]It's like right here.

[00:55:12]You see here where it's See how it catches? Look at the difference.

[00:55:17]Catches. And here it just skates.

[00:55:20]Make it doesn't catch at all. That's a perfect perfect quench. Beautiful.

[00:55:24]Beautiful.

[00:55:26]Beautiful.

[00:55:28]Just clean that up and she'll be ready to roll. Hey guys, check out this knife.

[00:55:32]I'm going to go grab it. Hold on.

[00:55:37]30 seconds.

[00:55:47]Check it out.

[00:56:49]Oh, what's up, Wes?

[00:56:53]Look at this thing.

[00:57:01]This is a green and black al-Qaeda.

[00:57:06]Put it on that belt grinder. Watch.

[00:57:08]You're going to see some color come alive. Yeah, this one's pretty cool.

[00:57:13]Probably illegal in uh I don't know how many countries, but whatever.

[00:57:20]She goes.

[00:57:22]Can't always fly in that straight line.

[00:57:27]Check it out. Watch this.

[00:57:45]That's a positive.

[00:58:34]All the layers are like a different color like black. I think it goes black, green, black, green, black, green, black, green.

[00:58:53]Exactly. That's exactly what it is. Obo, you said it exactly.

[00:59:00]And the guy, a guy up to no good. You got that 100%.

[00:59:05]This is for an ex-military guy.

[00:59:09]Special forces.

[00:59:26]That's pretty funny.

[00:59:36]What are you doing?

[01:00:28]Come on.

[01:00:58]See the color in there? Pretty cool.

[01:01:02]You got to grind it till there's like no uh no epoxy there.

[01:01:07]This not an apple peeler. No way.

[01:01:21]No, no World Cup for me, buddy. I don't watch soccer. Never appealed to me.

[01:01:27]I'm not a soccer guy. Only kind of sports I like is like UFC, combat fighting, ultimate fighting.

[01:01:36]Used to watch a bit of boxing, but not not lately.

[01:01:41]Yeah, this is going to be pretty cool.

[01:01:43]Pretty cool. This is going to take a lot of hand sanding. So, I'm not going to bore you guys with all the the dillydally here.

[01:02:08]Tape the blade. Yeah, I probably should.

[01:02:18]I'm not it's not the final ground anyways. I'm not done not the final grind the blade. So, I'm going to do this uh off camera.

[01:02:28]Just a little quick quick look. But should be pretty cool. I got some kidex for the for the sheath.

[01:02:37]I think it's going to turn out pretty neat. So, anyway guys, that's going to be it. Take care you guys. Have a uh great rest of your weekend and I'll see you when I see you guys. God bless guys.

[01:02:48]Take care.